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Eclectic musician, he composes, plays, teaches.

He has always tried to combine a multifaceted activity that was not linked exclusively to the aspect

of instrumentalist, remaining deliberately far from commonplaces and circles often associated with

guitar.

He owes his training to Mariano Andreolli.

His career has always developed through two channels, that of concertism and that of composition,

inseparable from each other.

Although participation in national and international competitions for both execution and

composition has always brought excellent results, the idea of competition has never been primary in

his musical career. The very conception that in such a subjective art a sort of ranking could exist is

completely opposite to his conception of music, essentially understood as a state of being.

His work is characterized by the interdisciplinarity of the different expressions of art and aspires to

seek and find through his own art the common synthesis between the various worlds of

contemporaneity.

He took the certificate in guitar at the Conservatory of Trento and then he received the Degree in

Classical Guitar with a specialization in Chamber Music with full marks at the same conservatory.

He attended several masterclasses with guitarists of international fame as Oscar Ghiglia, Massimo

Lonardi, Andrea Dieci, Lorenzo Micheli, Giulio Tampalini, Piero Bonaguri, Paolo Cherici, Florindo

Baldissera, Leopoldo Saracino, Simone Fontanelli, Matteo Mela, Leo Brouwer, Eliot Fisk. He

studied with Giulio Tampalini at the Guitar Academy in Brescia deepening the solo repertoire and

since 2010 he had been studying for three years at Giulio Regondi Academy in Milan with Andrea

Dieci continuing his mastery for soloists.

He focuses his activity as soloist and also in chamber music, playing in various ensembles and

performs in numerous concerts in Italy and abroad.

During his career he had the opportunity to perform in Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia,

Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, United States, United Arab Emirates.

He also had the privilege of accompanying celebrities from the world of arts and show business as

David Grossman and Gigi Proietti (IDEM, Verona).

In 2023 the cd "La Storia di Morgano" was released for the Baryton record company - Opera for

soprano and four guitars in which he participated as a guitarist.

in May 2024 he held a one-week masterclass at the Academy of Arts - University of Banja Luka, in

Bosnia, working with the class of guitarist Natasa Jokic.

He plays a guitar by the English luthier Philip Woodfield.

He is interested in music beyond the instrumental area and during the years of his education he

deepened composition study with Nicola Straffelini.

Meeting Nadir Vassena was crucial, with whom first he studied at the Master of Advanced Studies

in Music Composition at the Musikhochschule in Lugano in Switzerland and then at the Master of

Arts in Music Composition and Theory. In that course he perfectioned also orchestration with

Giovanni Verrando and electronic techniques with Sylviane Sapir and graduated with full marks.

In February 2026 he concluded his advanced training course by obtaining the Certificate of

Advanced Studies in Music Composition in the class of Marco Stroppa at the HMDK Staatliche

Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

In his music, he uses unconventional forms of graphic scores not to undermine music theory, but to

free sound from rigid structures, deepen communication, and reinvent what a score can be. It's not

just about dismantling tradition, but about redefining music as a living, open experience.

His musical research uses the timbre as a fundamental element with the consequent interest inelectronic music as one of the means to manipulate the sound. Occasionally he takes classes from

Luca Richelli to improve this ability and in 2020 he participates as an auditor at the online seminar

at Chigiana Academy on Live-Electronics and Sound and Music Computing held by Alvise Vidolin,

Nicola Bernardini and Luca Richelli. He also attended courses in sound recording and mixing

techniques.

He attended seminars and masterclasses with important personalities of contemporary music as

Johannes Schöllhorn, Harrison Birtwistle, Mike Svoboda, Jérôme Combier, Franck Bedrossian,

Mats Scheidegger, Helmut Lachenmann, Dmitri Kourliandski, José María Sánchez- Verdú, Pierre

Alexandre Tremblay, Betsy Jolas, Antonio Politano, Dieter Mack, Daniela Terranova, Stefano

Gervasoni, Ivan Fedele, Michele Tadini, Errollyn Wallen, Matteo Cesari, Tristan Murail, Michele

Marco Rossi, Marco Momi, François Bernard Mâche.

He has always been interested in choir composition and direction and for this reason he is

deepening this field with the attendance to different courses like the ones with Marc Kissoczy,

Mario Lanaro and following seminars about vocal technique, conductor gestures, repertoire

analysis, choral composition, organized by some choir associations as Feniarco, Associazione Cori

Piemontesi and AERCO.

Award-winner in national and international composition competitions, he received commissions

from Corde d’Autunno Guitar Festival, Eutopia Ensemble, Akartia Trio, Prospettive Musicali

Contemporary Concert Season.

From 2016 to 2024 he continued his path of updating and comparing himself with the international

compositional world: interacting with composers with other aesthetics is fundamental and

stimulates him to increasingly find a highly personal and recognizable language and he took part in

several masterclasses: with Giorgio Colombo Taccani at the CdM San Michele; with Marco Momi

organized by MotoContrario Ensemble; with Francesco Filidei inside the Urticanti Festival and at

least he went to Barcelona as a composer selected for the Mixtur Festival de Nova Creaciò Sonora

de Barcelona to follow the Composition and Sound Experimentation Workshop, where he

participated to the activities and followed the lessons of the American composer Bethany Younge.

But two composers in particular have profoundly influenced his way of composing: Ivan Fedele

whose masterclasses he followed for three years and in the last period the meetings with Pierluigi

Billone's lessons. From the latter he learned the radical idea of musical timbre as a polarizing

energy characterizing form, an aesthetic which he made his own and developed according to a

personal language.

In early 2025, he won a call for scores from the ensemble La Petite Ecurie, which commissioned

him to write an acousmatic piece to be included in their instrumental concerts and which will be

performed at the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele 2025 in Schwetzingen . In the same period, he won

a residency for composers at the Festival precept.concept.percept XII 2025, with the commission of

a new work and its performance after an artistic residency in Bled, Slovenia; in October 2025, he

will also attend a composition masterclass with Josè Manuel Lopèz Lopèz, which will involve the

performance of his work at the Musikagileak Festival in Donostia, Basque Country. Still during

2025 he had been selected by the composer David Molinar for a Course “Percussion for

Composers: Writing and Orchestration” and then he had been selected by the Aktapha Ensemble to

partecipate in a composition workshop in Athens to write a new piece for them.

His music is performed in Italy and abroad by musicians as Andrea Dieci, Giovanni Maselli, Chris

Moy, Federica Canta, Lorenzo Marcolongo, Pauline Tardy, Maura Marinucci, Miguel Angel Pérez

Diego, Giulia Vazzoler, EnArmonia Guitar Ensemble, Trio Contrasti, Ensemble Performance, Silvia

Cignoli, Quatuor Chouette, Kugel Saxophone Ensemble, Les Amis de Rossini saxophone quartet,

Antonio Politano, Margherita Berlanda, Emanuele Dalmaso, Akartia Trio, Samuele Provenzi,

Franziska Salker, Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, New Made Ensemble, GiacomoCardelli, Elide Sulsenti, Dissolution Ensemble, Ars Nova Ensemble, abeceda [New Music

Ensemble], Aktapha Ensemble, Quatour Diotima and in the course of Festivals as Pordenone Guitar

Festival, Corde d’Autunno Guitar Festival, SuonoChitarraNatura, Festival Nuovi Orizzonti Sonori,

Segovia Guitar Week, Festival Internazionale Musica negli Horti, Associazione Athenaeum, Le

strade del Suono Contemporary Music Festival, XVIII World Saxophone Congress, Concerti

d'Autunno Pesaro, LuganoMusica, San Vito Musica Contemporanea Festival, Foresty International

Music Festival, I Concerti del Conservatorio di Milano, Universität der Künste Berlin, Festival

Melologo Bellagio Como 2023, Nak Festival Pamplona, Festival Contrasti, XVI Musikagileak

Circuito de Musica Contemporanea, Festival 5 Giornate di Milano, Norval Foundation during

World New Music Days in South Africa, Il Suono Contemporary Music Week, IstantaneaUrbana,

Vadstena Akademien, Arts Petaluma Center San Diego California, Sound Spaces 2024 Malmo

Sweden, Gegenstände X Bibliothek Luzern, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele 2025, Bled

Contemporary Music Festival, Freunde Alter Musik Basel, werk_statt_festival, komponist*innen

Werkstatt 2026.

It is also broadcast by some radios dedicated to contemporary music as RadioCemat.

He is also interested in didactical writing and he often works together with musicians for the

productions of educational compositions for their instruments. In 2015 his music for guitar was the

subject of a degree thesis in the Conservatory of Milan.

With the label Diffusione Arte he published a cd with didactical music for guitar, performed by

EnArmonia Guitar Ensemble and by students of Segovia Guitar Academy in Pordenone.

In 2020, his first monographic cd was released for the contemporary record company Stradivarius,

which collects compositions for different ensembles that explore the evolution of his musical and

aesthetic language.

In October 2023 his second monographic cd "On my way..." was released for the EmaVinci record

label. In this work, his aesthetic language finds its definitive mode of expression, through a

language that is reflected above all in sound-noise, without however trying to ever detach from a

profound aesthetic sense that could preclude its understanding.

In April 2024 he held a composition masterclass at the Puccini Conservatory in Gallarate, on his

guitar works and the aesthetic language that distinguishes them.

His works were published by Bèrben, Glissato, Cidea, Sconfinarte, Sinfonica, Armelin, Eufonia

Editions. Since 2017 they have been published by DaVinci Editions, Diaphonia Editions,

Stradivarius and BabelScores.

Always persuaded that teaching is an enrichment and an integral part of being a musician, he

graduated in Instrumental Didactics at the Conservatory of Bolzano in 2009. He is invited as a

judge in national and international competitions. He taught classical guitar at the conservatory of

Ferrara, Trieste, musical theory and perception at the Verona Conservatory and teaches privately

harmony and composition.

Currently he teaches harmony and analysis at the Padua Conservatory.

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Matteo Rigotti

Matteo Rigotti